In-depth interview (IDI)

Twenty towns in which SS was actually presented had been picked randomly from a total listing of two hundred communities where training had took place anywhere between , i.e. 1-36 months until the questionnaire. Out-of every one of these 20 SS villages, we selected one prior trainee having Daha fazla bilgi a semi-organized, in-depth interviews. 1 / 2 of was picked randomly out-of an inventory served by KHPT staff of men and women which they employees think got benefited from studies: others half of was in fact selected at random on the larger number out of students. Each of the chose SS trainees was also asked to identify a friend or relative to own interview, anybody which have whom they shared an almost dating. These were not told of factor in the fresh interviews. Brand new interviews was indeed conducted throughout the regional vernacular because of the interviewers instructed inside partial-organized choosing. Issues integrated their views on SS studies, key knowledge attained and you may common, views to the private attitudinal and you will behavioural transform, and you will views into changes due to SS, among their household members as well as in the community. The IDI transcripts were reviewed by hand to have regular themes and suggestions.

Polling Booth Studies (PBS)

Polling Booth Surveys (PBS) have been used by KHPT and others to obtain information on delicate subjects such as sexual practices; the methodology has been reported elsewhere . In summary, participants are interviewed in a group, though each person is behind a polling booth-type screen. The PBS sessions were conducted by trained PBS facilitators in the local vernacular in 40 villages: 20 where SS had been conducted in 2005, and 20 where no such training had been done. First we divided each village into 6 segments and randomly assigned each segment to one of the following 6 groups (unmarried women and unmarried men, younger married women and men, older married women and men). In each segment, one house was selected at random as a “starter” house. In this home, we listed all members of the household. If any person satisfied the criteria for inclusion, we requested their participation (if there was more than one such person in the house, we selected one at random). Then working to the left, we followed the same procedure in each house until we had invited 12 people in the appropriate group, giving an approximate total invited sample of 1440 respondents in the 20 SS villages and 1440 in the 20 non-SS villages. We were able to poll 1196 respondents in SS villages (83% response) and 1297 (90% response) in other villages, with a combined sample of 2493 (87% response). In addition, as many SS trainees as possible from the 20 Stepping Stones villages, were convenience-sampled to participate in a separate PBS session. In all 414 former trainees were sampled. Questions were a mixture of ones used in previous KHPT PBS and some were taken from the GEM Scale . The questions focused on knowledge, attitude and behaviour and involved yes/no or don’t know/not applicable responses. The knowledge and attitude questions were the same for all groups, but the behaviour questions differed according to what was appropriate for the specific group. All PBS data were entered into Excel spreadsheets and differences between groups were calculated using a chi-squared test. Preliminary analysis found that the general population samples were very similar; however the SS group profile was different to that of the general population samples (p < 0.01, Table 1), so the data from the SS trainee group were adjusted directly, using the stratum-specific denominator of the SS general population group as the standard population. Differences between groups were then calculated in STATA version 10 (STATA Corporation, USA) and p values calculated using a z-test (test of equality between proportions).